14. Look Out For Pirates! Out of print and hard to find, a rollicking adventure story about a group of sea-boys besting a group of Pirates, stealing their treasure, and pulling a Wickerman (Nic Cage) on the pirate crewpic.twitter.com/CFTIwe47ez
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24. Bilbo's Last Song It turns out that you can never introduce Tolkein too early. I only learned of this a week ago, and wasn't sure what I would get; I rather like it! A lovely poem, a nocturne, an elegy. Sleep well, kiddo, and dream of Amanpic.twitter.com/0MhS9vvgdu
25. The Little Prince Written by war hero Antoine de Saint-Exupery, needing no introduction, of course you must have known this book would make the list and everyone should read it BUT Did you /also/ know that some magnificent bastard made an unabridged pop-up version?pic.twitter.com/oedKYhCXv6
26. The Kitchen Knight This is another Hodge/Hyman collaboration, this time retelling part of the story of Gareth from the Matter of England Another entry in my Good Things are Good early childhood curriculum, upon which I shall expound going forwardpic.twitter.com/CWrjGSdG5K
27. East of the Sun, West of the Moon
Norse folk tales.
@orthonormalist has a fantastic reading list somewhere--preparation for a great books curriculum, but for kids.
I understand it's full of folk tales. This is not a mistake.
Children's books should be beautiful.pic.twitter.com/KWDQHK1DKt
28. Frederick There are many good ways to live. Frederick shows one of them.pic.twitter.com/aKjgZJQlui
29. Babar My parents took me to a children's theater production of Babar when I was six. The narrator was introducing the Elephant King with a series of astounded questions--"Who could this be?" I shouted "It's Babar, silly!" and he graciously granted me, "Yes, it's Babar."pic.twitter.com/nj3kFroTsr
30. Hershel and the Hanukkah Goblins I don't know whether this was a popular Jewish story before it was published in _Cricket_ but by the time I was nine even my semirural Catholic school had a copypic.twitter.com/3WAXpZECkz
32. Little Red Riding Hood Of course everyone knows this story, but everyone must also hear it for the first time. A problem with many stories is that they are written for the entertainment of a jaded reader, rather than for a naive child. Modern Disney movies exemplify this.pic.twitter.com/XUD5wY1eqf
33. The Stinky Cheese Man This book is a distillation of the phenomenon I mentioned above. It is nonsensical without a familiarity of the base material; it is an attaqq on decency and aesthetics; it is concentrated irony poisoning. It is however reasonably funny.pic.twitter.com/C6ZlHzRd7h
31. Oops I missed it Here's the name of the list I mentioned, haven't found a direct link Thanks buddy!https://twitter.com/orthonormalist/status/1288647840189698048?s=19 …
34. The Little Old Man Who Could Not Read Recommended by a mutual, this is the story of a sweet old man and his incredibly long-suffering wife. I suspect there is much empathy for illiterate kids here.pic.twitter.com/nz4rIDw9S4
35. The Rainbow Goblins
Another mutual's recommendation although @selentelechia remembers it from her childhood
A tale of wickedness, gluttony, and hubris
Sumptuously illustrated by an Italian Count, painting oil on oakpic.twitter.com/o4KQnAw1rA
36. Rapunzel I wonder what it was like to publish stories about heteronormative families with uncomplicated love for one another in the late 20th century. Especially as Hyman herself was divorced, with a child; she may have been gay. What was she looking for in her art?pic.twitter.com/eU85Yy1o5h
37. Calvin and Hobbes Extremely good to read as a parent or as a kid or just generally. The complete collection is very nice but heavy for small hands. I used to babysit a bright two year old named Phinneas who identified with Calvin intensely. He made his own transmogrifier.pic.twitter.com/ujo4U3BXB1
38. Swimmy A children's introduction to ecobolshevism, ethereally illustratedpic.twitter.com/8zA6es7Wdv
39. Strega Nona A good introduction to the multifarious dangers of witchcraft, and the corruption of even the clergy by that black art. Excellent preparatory material for a future scholar of Malleus Maleficarumpic.twitter.com/eMp3W4U067
40. Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark Stories are not actually scary. Appropriate for ages 0-3.pic.twitter.com/2Mg3tPZB4z
41. Where The Wild Things Are Monarchoprimitivist Calvin and Hobbespic.twitter.com/v9J6hVQ4qk
42. Corduroy Every think about how corduroy is probably actually a terrible fabric for a stuffed animal of any varietypic.twitter.com/8idYcX6Jt2
43. Goodnight Moon Deep lore: 1. My ex had a theory the old woman was actually a ghost 2. Some old biddy kept this out of the New York Public Library for decadespic.twitter.com/1fuP9pvPuO
Found more books on another bookcase Kids like diversity in their reading material right
Baby is not due til late February/early March and this is all I know how to do to prepare for being a dad I find myself getting more books about as quickly I list them here, another dozen or two are on the way along with a few dozen I have that I haven't posted yet Oh dear
44. Augie and the Green Knight
By @ZachWeiner and illustrated by @Bouletcorp
I backed this on Kickstarter but lost the original copy
It is extremely good, perfect really, for an unusually precocious grade schooler but might not be fully appreciated otherwisepic.twitter.com/UQCk6W9xrQ
45. Charlotte's Web welphttps://twitter.com/mikeets14/status/1289329699735257088?s=19 …
46. The Big Brown Bear
Another extremely dumb book and I loved it when I was three
Long-suffering wives with dumb husband's appears to be an ancient trope
Sorry @selentelechia we become the stories we readpic.twitter.com/9nViIvWz1j
47. The Gashlycrumb Tinies A firm, morally-upright traditional British alphabet bookpic.twitter.com/wH0ZRq8lSK
48. Bare Bear An ethnographic extract regarding the vile sartorial habits of polar megafauna Hilarious to four year oldspic.twitter.com/WOmzLqCUWn
49. Various Eric Carle books Overall would rate: Caterpillar: 10/10 Ladybug: 6/10 Bear: 7/10 Spider: 9/10 Rereading I was slightly irritated that they're overengineered pedagogical devices rather than just stories but the art is gorgeouspic.twitter.com/Nwbxvyt4JQ
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